Carsten Knox
Mindful’s associate editor, Carsten Knox,
went to Baltimore to profile the founders
of the Holistic Life Foundation, who work
with inner-city children and youth (p. 42).
“I’m a fan of the HBO TV series The Wire,
so I asked Ali, Atman, and Andy what
they thought,” he says. “They liked the
show’s story but said the reality of living in
Baltimore is far worse.” Knox’s writing has
appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Ottawa
Citizen, and the National Post.
Maira Kalman
“I love the marriage of word and image,”
says Maira Kalman, frequent contributor to
The New Yorker, author of many children’s
books, and Mindful’s regular illustrator
for MindSpace (p. 80). Kalman started a
mindful practice in order to inspire her work
on our back page. “The aim is to do a course
of meditation and share my thoughts. It’s
been very helpful in the hectic days to calm
me down.”
Jeremy Hunter
Jeremy Hunter explores the question:
Is mindfulness good for business? (p. 52).
With a decade of experience teaching in
MBA programs specializing in executive
management, he has gained some insight
on the topic. “It’s not just mind your breath,”
he says. “It’s let’s look at why you’re doing
what you do. It’s about taking a step back,
reassessing, and creating other choices
for yourself.”
Sharon Begley
“This three-pound piece of tissue inside our
skull can do amazing things. And science
is discovering so much more about it every
day,” says Sharon Begley, the senior health
and science correspondent at Reuters. “But
it’s impor tant to remain humble in the face
of the many questions science has only
begun to ask, no less answer.” In the first
installment of her column in Mindful, she
explores the interplay between the brain and
the mind (p. 30).
Illustrations by Jessica McCar thy and Maira Kalman (self-por trait)
Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer, who writes about the clarity he
finds while traveling (p. 60), is no stranger
to the depar tures level. “From the age of
nine, I was flying alone six times a year,
back and forth between my parents’ home
in California and my schools in England,”
he says. “So I guess I decided early on that
movement was only as good as the stillness
that lies beneath it.” Iyer is the author, most
recently, of The Open Road and The Man
Within My Head.
Béatrice Peltre
Chef, food stylist, and photographer
Béatrice Peltre developed the recipes and
photographed the radishes featured in this
month’s One Taste department (p. 24). “This
kind of food—healthy and organic—is what
I do,” says the Boston resident who grew
up in rural France. “Whatever you see is
what I eat. If that means it’s not as pretty or
glossy, that’s fine.” Peltre is the author of the
cookbook La Tartine Gourmande: Recipes
for an Inspired Life.
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